Indo-Pacific business association launches IPEF task force

The only pan-regional U.S. business association in the Indo-Pacific on Wednesday launched a task force aimed at ensuring the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity is “binding and meaningful.” The American Association of the Indo-Pacific formed earlier this year with the goal of elevating the U.S. presence in the region, Jackson Cox, the group’s interim president, told Inside U.S. Trade. Its IPEF task force mission is “to secure a binding and meaningful IPEF by bringing forward proposals, insights,...